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Hi-De-Hi! Annual

Time was lots of telly shows had their own annuals. And thanks to Retrospectro, we can have a quick peek inside the 1983 Hi-De-Hi! annual. Yummy treats. I also found this one – is it the same annual with a different cover, or a different annual from a different year?

October 21, 2021
Peter Behaving Badly

My internet connection is still glacially slow. Just to load this posting page took ten minutes. And it took ten minutes to load this one minute long video, so I’m glad it was worth the wait.

October 20, 2021
At Last …

My internet connection is so slow at the moment that the tick box on CAPTCHAs is timing out. I wish that was hyperbole, but it’s not. So, in that spirit, here’s a couple of sketches from At Last The 1948 Show.

October 19, 2021
Sitcom Train Stations

I was watching an episode of Hi-De-Hi!, where all of the camp staff are waiting at the train station for the new batch of campers to arrive. I wondered if the location they were filming at was the same as the one they later used for Oh, Doctor Beeching!. Hi-De-Hi! used Weybourne Railway Station on…

October 18, 2021
Hi-De-Hi! Connectors

Here is the Comedy Connections for Hi-De-Hi!

October 17, 2021

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Nineteen 90s Shows

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…